On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 09:23:38AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 02 Oct 2009 11:15:09 +0300, Arthur D. wrote: > > > And, yes, I prefer VIM. And I don't like when the package which > > vanilla defaults were always to be using vim as editor is overwritten > > without any notifications and causing the enduser to investigate > > how to fix that. > > Would you have the same argument if the vanilla default was emacs and the > ebuild changed it to vim? All you're complaining about is that a distro > that expects users to configure everything for themselves is expecting > you to add one line to a config file. > > This "problem" could also be fixed by USE flags. Instead of whining why > not submit a patch that has the ebuild respect the vanilla USE flag? >
USE flags is nice, except ls /usr/portage/app-editors/ | wc -l returns 76 packages (give or take a file or two). So we are looking at, uh, ~75 USE flags for the sudo ebuild, no counting the editors which aren't in app-editor (like ed, which resides in sys-apps instead of app-editor). The number of USE flags would be quite impressive for such a small package.
